In all seriousness this is pretty much my ideal game. I love the Descent races in Path of Exile but they were only ever at a set time and always online. I would have loved a version where it was offline and to be honest I still love TL2 more than PoE. I can't help as I know nothing about coding/modding but I will be rooting for you.

Just to point out one thing you have wrong. The majority of people don't actually take part in races to compete for the ladder. They do it just to build up points to get uniques which is exactly what you are saying is a problem. It is not and still lets us regular, non-competitive players have a reason and opportunity to enter. If we just want to enter to get some uniques then so be it, we have a better opportunity with this system and the chance to have them in our time zone.

In addition your comment about making extra accounts does happen elsewhere. If someone is that competitive then there will be others. The top players may try to get a few different classes to the top instead of just focusing on one character. I really don't see whats wrong with that. Starcraft has many instances of multiple accounts in the top portion of the leagues but it still means the cream rises to the top.

I suppose yeah, but if you have ever played any time trials they are still fun as hell. Also the current races are actually just time trials run side by side in different instances depending on how you look at it. I am just looking at the idea of everyone getting the chance to take part.